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Well they had their chance, they arrested Ambassador Macaire for attending a memorial for the Ukrainian shootdown victims. It’s a violation of international law but this has been a dad few days for Iran and international law anyway.
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‘Bad few days’, not ‘dad few days’. Must be that I was still forgetting my son’s birth in my roster of 1968 events.
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OMG I think perhaps that the UK Amb should go home for a visit.
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Iran will probably expel him to save face though England might recall him for much the same reason.
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Could always send Harry to negotiate.
****No harm meant tot the former heir to the crown****
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Yeah, the Queen wants him to wait at the airport for the ambassador.
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And just like that Mexit was solved…..
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And she’ll be held in the Lower Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center for her own safety.
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Well there is 21st and California in Chicago, they are always welcoming there.
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They could hold their welcome home party in Marcey Park!
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Or go out to the train tracks in Mena Arkansas and put put pennies on the track.
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Or catch one of those ‘sweaty guerilla’ smelling flights out of Mena to a Nicaraguan resort…
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So long as the formerly known as royals don’t start lifting weights.
You know the Clintons are rather creative, too bad they didn’t put that to good use rather than grotesque evil.
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The couple don’t look like they could lift or pull their own weight.
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They also burned Macaire’s effigy….
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Who knew!! Iran is getting its own share of Macedonian Trolls???
I wonder when the vile rat Khamenei will get dethroned. It can’t happen soon enough.
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I see tweets about protests, but there is no way to know how extensive they are. A lot of tweets are repeats. Some in Tehran, some in the odd other place, so who knows how big it all is? It does seem that Iran is prepared to beat and shoot and arrest people. It would be nice if the uprising takes hold and there is a regime change, but what are the chances? The Gilets jaunes began in France in October 2018.. and they have not won. And Hong Kong… still going after months.
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Understood.
The people who seem to be in the know, from Maryam Rajavi who I have followed for years to Heshmat Alavi are hopeful. That gives me hope.
I have one Muslim friend, a pretty close friend who I know, she is hopeful. Her nephews were killed by the Taliban so it takes a lot for her to feel any hope.
People are defying the mullahs, the supreme leader, the taste of freedom if a very beautiful and dangerous thing.
Sadly what it will come down to is how many Iranians who want to live in a more secular society are willing to sacrifice their lives for that freedom.
If the armed forces turn against the regime it is over.
The people have no guns, which makes them almost helpless against the tyrants with weapons.
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If they want the Ayatollah government gone… they need something to take over. An opposition political movement. I have no idea what they have got?
Battling the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is going to be bloody
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Agreed. But it is their world, they have to figure it out, not my culture or my country.
Maryam Rajavi believes that there can be peace. I don’t know if there can be. It is a blood thirsty culture. Total reform, but what does that look like?
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Agree. They have to sort it out.
I see a few calls for the Monarch to be restored… via the old Shah’s son and heir. No idea if that is a widespread desire?
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I see some in favor of this, some say no. I am not educated enough to offer an informed opinion.
In general thought — something new rather than anything old (with all its attached baggage, favors and grudges held) would on the face of it seem to be a more viable option.
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First thing any reformers are going to have to sort out is the 20,000+ IRG members whom, in the event of a sea change in government, would find themselves out of a job, having lost their privileged position in the government and probably would look askance at their sudden drop in the social hierarchy. They are rather better armed and trained than the military is too.
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Thanks Czar, I knew you would have good insight.
That seems to me to be an almost insurmountable problem. If Khamenie went to live with Justin Trudeau tomorrow, what is left that has power is a bunch of soon to be waring IRG members who have lived a bloodthirsty existence for decades.
Just spitballing from the bleachers here.
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They are religious zealots just as the mullahs are, they protect the mullahs (who are arguably the power behind the scene) from the military and the civilian government.
As I keep saying, Khomeini created the Pasdaran to protect the Islamic revolution and to spread it throughout the world. I swear that Khomeini followed Lenin in his forming the NKVD and Hitler’s creating the SS to protect the Nazi Party. Just as the KGB (NKVD) and the SS survived well after their governments’ deaths and helped shape governments that followed the IRG will do so too.
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BTW, Senate Rats are reporting that they have enough Republican votes to pass the bill limiting Trump’s powers vis-a-vis Iran. Let’s see if they have the votes to override a veto.
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How about the Brits recall Ambassador Macaire and replace him with the Mayor of London?
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